one 's mother country

one 's mother country

The state of parents, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ù m ǔ zh ī B ā ng, which means the motherland. It comes from the Analects of Confucius.

Analysis of Idioms

The country of parents, the country of parents

Idiom usage

In this way, Xi Nengyan stayed? I see it in my parents' country. Lu Xun's "grave: on Cultural Deviation"

The origin of Idioms

"The Analects of Confucius · Weizi" said: "it's not necessary to go to the land of parents if you bend the law and do things to others."

Idiom story

In the spring and Autumn period, after Confucius led his disciples to travel around the world, with the help of Ran Qiu, he finally returned to the state of Lu, his parents' country. Ji Kangzi, the principal, thought he was too old to use him. He thought that he and Ji Kangzi were "different from each other." So he began to live in leisure and concentrate on writing, sorting out poems, books, rites, music, spring and autumn, etc